Unless you were buried under a rock I’m sure you all know about the Big B’s blog. And Ram Gopal Varma has one too! Put the two together and they’re making sure there isn’t a single criticism against Sarkar Raj! The concept of “my blog-my opinion” serves as a very thin line between the permitted and the unethical! Earlier AB Sr. had trashed a number of newspaper columnists for their comments about his blog. Khalid Mohammad was at the receiving end of some really below the waist comments because he had dismissed Bachan’s performance in Bhoothnath! What exactly do they think a movie critic’s job is?? I find it extremely amusing that AB and RGV are naive enough to make film reviews so personal by attacking the reviewer! You make a movie, and express and exploit your creative license. The reviewer similarly has the license to bring to print exactly what he feels about the movie! How difficult is it to understand that? And when your blog is read by thousands of fans and others, you automatically shoulder a huge social responsibility of not abusing your widespread readership and the adoration of your fans! AB writes brilliantly and has a wonderful knack of telling a tale, making his blog interesting to read. But when he decides to wash his dirty laundry on his blog things get a little out of hand and leave a very bad taste!
In another episode, a saga of email exchanges between a blogger and a portal called keral.com brings in disgust of really scary proportions!!! Cyber stalking, hacking,threats and abuse…really what is this world coming to??? The poor blogger has been undergoing tremendous trauma.There have been several cases of plagiarism, with even popular newspapers stealing content from peoples’ blogs. All this exposes the dire need for serious regulation of copyright protection to blogs in India.
Where do we draw the line? Can celebrity bloggers use their blogs for their personal vendetta? Does a blogger have any moral/social responsibilities toward his/her audience? When does it change from being a medium of personal expression to a bitter abuse of freedom of speech??
p.s : On a totally unrelated note, check out J.K Rowling’s brilliant speech at the Harvard Commencement.
6 responses so far ↓
Adithya // June 12, 2008 at 3:31 am
That was a nice speech! Heard it today morning. She is brilliant and brilliant on the lines of Einstein et al!
About celebrity blogging, I have my own doubts. Aamir Khan started it in a big way and connected with everyone with his straight from the heart writing. One humor in bad taste caught on and everyone wants publicity! I think someone else is ghost writing for AB. RGV and others. I feel there is some sort of revolution, albeit a bad one, going on in bollywood. The hollywood like publicity, one person, one couple being constantly in news and all that. Quite sick. Worst part is, of all people, bachchans doing it.
I like SRK’s comment though when he said writing is a journalist’s job, why should I get into it!
dandilsa // June 12, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Adithya- I totally agree! I think it becomes inevitable that celebrity bloggers use their blogs to settle personal scores! Which is kinda sad..there seems to be a lot of ego wars in bolloywood now.. I think its slowly creeping to Kollywood what with the recent tiffs between Vikram, Gautham Menon and Sudhish Kamath!
dandilsa // June 12, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Oh n I totally adore JKR! A lot of Harvard snobs thought she didn’t deserve the honor. But I think she silenced all with her brilliant speech!
Adithya // June 12, 2008 at 4:37 pm
when did gautham menon come into that? I did read that open letter in sudhish’s blog. Maybe I didn’t read it properly…
dandilsa // June 12, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Well it all started off with Gautham Menon saying he hated Bheema in the Hindu Why I love/hate series..
Mahathi // June 14, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I lived under a rock!!!
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